Norman McLaren Quotes

Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it.

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• To be honest, marriage doesn't scare me and that, it's just once you've been together for so long, if you haven't got any kids it's just a big expensive day out for everyone else to enjoy, isn't it?

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Long
  • Kids
  • Together

• If I had a choice, I'd rather be admired less and have my husband tormented less. I'd prefer that people concentrate on a fair assessment of him and his Presidency.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • People
  • Husband
  • Choice

• I don't believe in strong-arming people.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • People
  • Believe
  • Strong

• My job was to get a fair and open hearing to all ideas.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Job
  • Ideas
  • Fair

• No, you will never see me on 'Dancing With the Stars.' Sorry.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Me
  • Stars
  • Sorry

• Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • World
  • Great
  • Art

• The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Authority

• I'm very unpopular for my dislike of this food, but I've never liked avocado. Everyone gives me so much flack for it because they tell me how healthy it is for me, how delicious it is. I don't like it, but it's not for lack of trying. I tried to like it, and it's just not my thing.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Food
  • Healthy
  • Dislike

• We have to be able to poke fun at ourselves.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Fun
  • Able
  • Poke

• It is said that love makes the world go 'round - the announcement lacks verification. It's wind from the dinner horn that does it.

  

  O. Henry
  • World
  • Love
  • Wind

• As an actor, the ambition is to play interesting characters. And in the indie genre world, the budgets are low. That allows me, as an actor, not to have a financial value behind my name, to justify me being in these bigger parts for these types of movies.

  

  A. J. Bowen
  • World
  • Interesting
  • Value

• Vegas is like the old definition of writing: though I don't enjoy writing, I love having written. Though I didn't enjoy Vegas, I love having lived there.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Enjoy

• An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false.

  

  Nance O'Neil
  • Art
  • She
  • True

• Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Friends
  • Rich
  • Loved

• The Church had its own law code and its own courts of law which were supreme over the clergy, and had large rights of jurisdiction even over the laity, so that it could develop and give effect to its own ideas of law and right.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Law
  • Church

• Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity.

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • Truth

• Eventually one day I want to direct, but as of right now my next cap that I'm looking for is the producer cap.

  

  Laz Alonso

• When I first asked my boxing coach, two-time Olympic champion Hector Vinent, what made the Cuban style of fighting distinct from the rest of the world, he smiled and told me to sit on a bench in Prado and watch the Cuban women walk.

  

  Brin-Jonathan Butler
  • Time
  • World
  • Women

• The Polynesians used to have a system where they proclaimed a fishing area as 'taboo.' If any fisherman was caught fishing in a taboo area, they would be killed. The Polynesians understand that the fish had to be given a chance to recover.

  

  Paul Watson
  • Fishing

• Try everything that can be done. Be deliberate. Be spontaneous. Be thoughtful and painstaking. Be abandoned and impulsive. Learn your own possibilities.

  

  George Bellows
  • Everything
  • Spontaneous
  • Abandoned

• Presidents and prime ministers, whether they live in the rich or the poor world, are insulated and isolated from the devastating impact of global poverty. They read the statistics, but they rarely witness at first hand the misery and degradation of life on a dollar a day.

  

  Jonathan Dimbleby
  • Life
  • World
  • Live

• Once I had started film, I suddenly said, 'Wow, I love it.' I moved there from New York. But I've always gone back to the theater, and it is more satisfying, really, because you get to give a continuous performance - no sequels.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Film
  • Performance
  • Theater

• Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it.

  

  Norman McLaren
  • Film
  • Unique